Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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His conception of Socialism is distinctive. He is not interested in temporary palliatives that go under the name of social reform any more than in direct action and the "dictatorship of the proletariat". He believes in socialism as a scientific process--a matter of biological evolution, and he insists that...
The Rev. John Roach Straton, Pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in New York, has accepted an invitation from the Harvard Christian Association to speak at the University on March 25, on the subject of "Evolution versus God," officers of the association announced last night.
Dr. Straton has figured prominently in the recent controversy of Fundamentalism versus Modernism, advocating a literal, rather than a modern, interpretation of the Bible. He disbelieves in evolution in the Darwinian sense.
By process of evolution the hermit Japanese of the early cartographer became the "inscrutable Jap." of modern fiction. And lest the tradition of his baffling incomprehensibility be momentarily forgotten there arrives the news that Crown Prince Hirohito has be-stowed the high noble and hereditary title of count upon one...
"Nowadays an army or a navy without an air-force is like a boxer entering a fight blind-folded;" whereupon to prove his point, General Patrick proceeded to show some terrifying pictures of the bombing of the battleship Alabama. Exactly six minutes elapsed between the moment when the 2000 lb...